Whether it’s an online friend or a celebrity, the deaths of people we know from fandom can impact us as much as our real life friends.
When I was a teenager and one of my fandom friends stopped posting, chances are that they decided they didn’t like their main online persona or that they needed to switch fandoms. When a celebrity stopped using social media, it was likely because they got tired of aggressive fans in their space. Twenty years later, more and more of the people I love have stopped using social media because…have stopped.
Even when the loss isn’t a collective one, fandom can come through for fans who’ve had a great loss in their lives. For Berklie, a fandom expert with a hilarious outlook on fandom and a strong“I posted a video letting my followers know what had happened as I had been dropping hints here and there about what I was going to do for my birthday, but I had to start planning a funeral instead,” she tells.
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